Abstract:
A surface analyzer with which users only need to perform simple operations to quantitatively compare different physical quantities, such as the altitude and phase, in a region of interest on a sample is provided. A three-dimensional color image created by mapping color information corresponding to the phase onto a three-dimensional image created from two-dimensional distribution data of a sample's altitude is displayed in an analysis result display screen. A section image is superposed on the three-dimensional color image. The one-dimensional area at which the section image intersects the sample is defined as the region of interest. The altitude and phase along this region of interest are graphically shown on the graph display area. Various characteristic values at the position of these cursors, such as the altitude and phase values or the difference in these values between two cursors, are displayed in a characteristic value table.
Abstract:
Each chip in a three-dimensional circuit includes a pair of connections, a test signal generation circuit, and a test result judgment circuit. The connections are electrically connected with an adjacent chip. The test signal generation circuit outputs a test signal to one of the connections. The test result judgment circuit receives a signal from the other of the connections and, from the state of the signal, detects the conducting state of the transmission path for the signal. Before layering the chips, a conductor connects the connections to form a series connection, and the conducting state of each connection is detected from the conducting state of the series connection. After layering the chips, the test signal generation circuit in one chip outputs a test signal, and the test result judgment circuit in another chip receives the test signal, and thus the conducting state of the connections between the chips is tested.
Abstract:
One aspect of the present invention is a three-dimensional integrated circuit 1 including a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip that are layered on each other, wherein each of (i) a wiring layer closest to an interface between the first and second semiconductor chips among wiring layers of the first semiconductor chip and (ii) a wiring layer closest to the interface among wiring layers of the second semiconductor chip includes a power conductor area and a ground conductor area, a layout of the power conductor area and the ground conductor area in the first semiconductor chip is the same as a layout of the power conductor area and the ground conductor area in the second semiconductor chip, and the power conductor area in the first semiconductor chip at least partially faces the ground conductor area in the second semiconductor chip with an insulation layer therebetween.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit is provided with a substrate, an electrode, two diffusion areas, and a resistance heater. The substrate includes a first surface and second surface that are substantially parallel to each other. The electrode is laminated onto the first surface. The two diffusion areas are disposed within the substrate in the vicinity of the electrode to form one transistor with the electrode. The resistance heater is located on an area of the second surface across the substrate from the electrode. The resistance heater produces heat by allowing electric current to flow.
Abstract:
[Object]The present invention relates to a turmeric pigment composition. More specifically, the present invention provides a turmeric pigment composition in which aggregation and sedimentation of a turmeric pigment over time is effectively prevented even when a concentrated amount of turmeric pigment is incorporated in a solvent; the turmeric pigment composition also ensures a desirable color-developing property, and is capable of stably adding a deep color with a bright tone, which was never accomplished by a hitherto-known colorant.
Abstract:
An assembled battery system is disclosed that includes a plurality of serially-connected battery cells; voltage detecting lines connectable at one ends to electrodes of the battery cells of the assembled battery; electric resistors serially-connected at one ends to the other ends of the voltage detecting lines; capacitors connected to the other ends of the electric resistors, each of the capacitors being configured to electrically interconnect one of the voltage detecting lines and the other voltage detecting line; voltage measuring circuits connected respectively to each of the voltage detecting lines; electrically openable short-circuiting switches arranged between the capacitors and the voltage measuring circuits and parallel-connected to the capacitors; and a monitoring circuit that detects a difference between a first measurement result and a second measurement result with respect to each of the short-circuiting switches and a failure of the voltage detecting lines, the short-circuiting switches or the voltage measuring circuits.
Abstract:
Provided is a hinge that can be manufactured easily in a short time. The hinge rotatably connects a first member and a second member, and is provided with two brackets that are rotatable against each other and mounted to the first member and the second member, respectively, and a friction-torque-generating member that generates friction torque by directly or indirectly pressing the two brackets against each other. A first of the two brackets is configured from an integral structure that includes a shaft part that passes through the second bracket and supports the rotation, and a mounting part that is mounted to the first member or the second member, with the shaft part and the mounting part being produced from a plate material.
Abstract:
In an MEA member constituted by a polymer electrolyte membrane-electrode assembly (MEA) and a frame and in a polymer electrolyte fuel cell including this MEA member, the MEA and the frame can be easily separated from each other without using any special tool.An MEA member 7 includes an MEA 5 and a plate-shaped resin frame 6, and a separating portion for separating the MEA 5 from the frame 6 is formed in the MEA member 7. The MEA 5 includes a polymer electrolyte membrane 2 and a pair of electrodes 3 and 4 respectively disposed on both main surfaces of the polymer electrolyte membrane 2. The frame 6 sandwiches and holds a peripheral portion of main surfaces of the MEA 5 such that the MEA 5 is located inside the frame. The separating portion is a broken-line cutoff line 50 formed on the frame 6 to divide the frame 6 into two or more parts or a partial sandwiching portion 55 located at an inner peripheral portion of the frame 6 to partially sandwich the peripheral portion of the MEA 5.
Abstract:
In a manufacturing method for an electrode-membrane-frame assembly in a fuel cell, a first frame member and an electrolyte membrane member are arranged in a first mold for injection molding such that the edge of the electrolyte membrane member is arranged on the first frame member, a second mold is arranged to form a resin flow passage for forming a second frame member which is in contact with the first frame member by interposing the electrolyte membrane member, and a part of the edge of the electrolyte membrane member is pressed and fixed to the first frame member by a presser member mounted on the second mold and a molding resin material is injected into the resin flow passage to form a second frame member.
Abstract:
A fuel cell stack comprising: a cell stack body having stacked single cells and a manifold for supplying or discharging a fluid to the stacked single cells, the single cell including a membrane electrode assembly and a separator sandwiching the membrane electrode assembly; an end plate stacked onto the cell stack body and having a through-hole along the stacking direction of the cell stack body; and a fluid tube body inserted detachably into the through-hole so as to pass through the end plate, the fluid tube body being connected to the manifold, wherein a part of the outer surface of the fluid tube body opposite to the inner surface of the through-hole is separated from the inner surface of the through-hole.